It’s been a long time since I’ve been to a craft-themed show. I remember going to one decades ago that was enormous, with at least ten rows of stalls and a crush of shoppers in all of them. This one was much, much smaller. A few rows of stalls, a display area and that’s about it. And yet what was there was, at least initially, pretty crowded and the stalls were mostly relevant to my interests. (I say ‘mostly’ mainly because they had the usual filler stalls of products unrelated to craft who I suspect have a cheap “fill gaps at the last moment” arrangement with the event organiser.)
I bought some fabric and trim scrap packs and a few fat quarters, some sashiko books and project patterns and materials, and some erasable pens to try. The only items on my shopping list I didn’t find were sewing patterns. The last item was more of a task: to ask at the Jenome stand if there’s anything I can do to get my Juki cover stitcher machine working properly. A question I didn’t expect to get a specific answer for, but I hoped they’d recommend someone who could help – and they did.
Unfortuantely, I didn’t think to take photos until after all the fabric and tools were incorporated into my stash!